Nearly 18 months after the Mumbai carnage, what lessons/status does India offer its citizens?
An update. (30/5/2010)
There has been one more terrorist activity in Pune.
Four hubs of NSG have started operations. NIA has started operations.
However, Maoists have stuck terror in Chattisgarh, Dantewada, Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar, killing almost a thousand people altogether in their gory, mindless fashion.
The UPA has completed one more year of its second innings.
HIV population is slooowwwly stabilizing.
The rape situation has not undergone any significant change.
Child abuse is as rampant as then.
Though fundamentally nothing has changed, the seeds of change, and revolutionary change have been sown in the country. Tough questions have been asked and answers sought for. Politicians are a far more answerable lot than yesteryears. And that has thrown better men to the arena of politics.
Are the lot of poor any better? That is something that still requires a cogent answer. In a country, where $15billion is raked in the by the government for 3G licenses, thus cutting the fiscal deficit of the government by nearly 10% (!!), the same government finds it tough to ensure that its citizens can get foodgrains at a nominal cost.
Is there any meaning in apportioning blame to anybody? Who do we blame? In a country where T20 champions are feted in grander-than-grand style at phenomenal costs, and where NSG commandoes have to be transported in dinghy BEST buses, who are we complaining against and for what?
Let us look inside. The day when we are able to stand up to the corruption and not bend to suit our two-bit needs, the greater cause of our country may be won.
